Do you categorise your towels?

[prisscalledwanda]

And if so, how do you store and organise them?

I've always stacked them in groups by size. But I think I want to group them ALSO by 'type' the way Monica from friends presumably does. Or store them in 'sets' eg a set of guest towels all together? I keep on thinking of her 11 categories and how on earth they were organised.

On the same topic, if you have an airing cupboard do you organise bedding by size? By room? By something else?

Sorry to start such a dull thread. I may remember this as the moment I became middle aged.

I have an airing cupboard. The hand towels are stacked together, as are the bath towels. The bedding is separated into a double pile, and a single pile. A duvet set and sheet on top, with spare sheets underneath.

In exist realise I am Monica.

I buy towels in sets and keep them folded on the airing cupboard by set with largest at the bottom obviously up to the flannel on the top.
Everyone in my house has a set each, I have holiday sets for everyone, the cheap sets which get taken to rainy days at outdoor activities for everyone and or the beach in this country, I have ones for my PIL, my parents, two spare sets which are used for guests, I also have 2 super fancy sets which can only be used my me and DH, and two baby sets

Bedding. Everyone in the house has 4 sets each organsized the same as the towels. I have two guest bedrooms with 2 sets per bedroom (so one set on the beds and one ready in the airing cupboard. I also have 3 sets of kids bedding as emergency ones incase one of the children are sick etc. two olds set that is used for camping in the garden or on a weekend camping trip and a big pile of baby sets.

I keep towels in the airing cupboard. Bath sheets and smaller bath towels in piles together. Hand towels and guest towels rolled and stacked, so can see size at a glance. Flannels are folded and stacked, but I have a different pile of (pale pink) ones for my face, that never have soap on them.

I keep bedding in a big chest of drawers. Everything is white and I have some nice vintage embroidered pillowcases for a dash of colour.

I am not that organised unfortunately but really like to keep the bedding for each bed in its corresponding pillow case. Very neat looking and nothing gets lost.
In terms of towels, I use this equation to work out how many are needed - no of people in Household x 2 + 4 in case of guests staying. All my household towels are white so I also have little clips with a different colour tag so know who they belong to! Maybe I am quite organised. 🤣🙈Just fold these up neatly in airing cupboard, separate pile for beach/pool towels, old towels etc…

I don’t have an airing cupboard so I bought a giant antique wardrobe which houses spare duvets, extra bedding, sleeping bags, pillows - we have a few times a year when we have a lot of visitors at once so this stuff is for the airbeds, sofa beds etc that get used. Otherwise spare clean bedding for each bed is kept in the drawers under that bed. Towels are split: kids towels, hand towels etc in a trunk in their bathroom and our towels and guest towels are in drawers.

I have to label all my bottom sheets as we’ve all got different sized beds - small double, double and super king . Sheets are a nightmare. I’m thinking about moving away from white to each bed having its own colour bottom sheet.

Thanks everyone.

And @FrenchFries2024 please can you tell us more about these clips?!

Here is the link https://amzn.eu/d/fbDGGsd 😊😊

How many towels do you have that they need organising? we're a family of 3 and have 4 bath towels, two hand towels, 3 swimming towels, and a spare 'set' of 2 for company and if ours are in the wash and not dry when needed. so, 11 towels. The only organisation that happens is the swimming towels are kept in the swimming bags ...